Traditionally May and June seem to be the busiest months of the year and it’s no different this year.

Later today I’m taking the Eurostar to London and will join the CS5.5 Evolution Tour crew for the CS5.5 event in London. There’s still some room left if you want to join us but you may want to register right now as I’m sure we will be closing registration soon. I’ll also be joining the CS5.5 Evolution Tour in Amsterdam next week. If you’re an Adobe UserGroup member you can even sign up for a special device update and may even go home with a brand new device. The day after the CS5.5 Evolution Tour stops in Amsterdam you can find us in Kortrijk for Multi Mania. This will be my 7th consecutive year at Multi Mania… Time flies… Registration for Multi Mania is still open so get your free tickets now!

If you happen to be in Amsterdam next Thursday you may want to check out the Meet The PlayBook event. It’s a great opportunity to get to know the power of the BlackBerry PlayBook and learn how you can build apps for it using Flash Builder 4.5. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to this event myself (I’m doing a guest lecture at the University of Ghent) but my colleague Piotr will show you all the good stuff.

Later this month I’ll also be speaking at Webinale in Berlin. I’ve never been to Webinale but I only heard good things about it so I’m really looking forward to it.

Hope to see you at one of these events!

As last week, this is just a collection of blog posts and sites that caught my attention this week.

• Send your name to the moon: NASA is sending an unmanned mission to the moon and you can be part of it… well… Your name can be part of it but that’s still cool [link]
• Spam 30 years old: The first spam message was sent on Arpanet on May 3rd, 1978 [link]
• Giant solar powered LED screen in Bejing [link]
• A celebration of Pixel Art: Smashing Magazine has a great collection of Pixel Art which includes the AIR launch poster by Eboy [link]
• MXNA is back [link]
• Hydra is now Pixel Bender [link]
• Interactive demos of ILOG Elixir charting components for Flex: If you’re looking for sophisticated data visualization for Flex, don’t look any further [link]
• FedEx Desktop released: Now you can follow your FedEx shipments with an AIR app [link]
• Living in The Netherlands? Take the bus to Multi-Mania. The Dutch Adobe UserGroup is organizing a bustrip to Multi-Mania. [link]
• The User Interface Resource Center: The User Interface Resource Center (UIRC) provides free articles and White Papers written by industry leaders about user interface design and rich Internet applications (RIAs) [link]

I thought it would be a great idea to start with a weekly roundup post with links to blog posts or sites that caught my attention over the last week. So here’s the first one. I’m playing a little bit of catch-up this week so some links may actually be a little bit older than one week.

• Flex Builder Enhancements: InsideRIA has a great article on a couple of really cool and useful add-ons for Flex Builder [link]
• Update on MXNA: Mike Chambers explains what’s going on with MXNA and what he and Christian Cantrell are doing to revive it [link]
• AIR badge WordPress plugin: Peter Elst wrote a plugin for WordPress to easily deploy your AIR projects on your WordPress blog. [link]
• Multi-Mania registrations now open: Multi-Mania is a yearly free multimedia event in Belgium. Actually, it’s the only event of it’s kind in Belgium. The speaker list keeps getting better every year. [link]
• Enrique Duvos’ new blog: Platform evangelist buddy (and my manager) Enrique moved his blog to a new URL [link]
• Greg Wilson switched to Mac: After 20 years on Windows, Greg (also on the Platform evangelism team) switched to Mac. Welcome Greg! [link]
• Flex Coders Yahoo Group now has 9547 subscribers [link]
• Thermo, the board game: Rob Adams (design researcher on the Thermo team) talks about how he had to use paper prototypes for testing their design concepts [link]

I wanted to quickly write this post to let you know about some events that are on my calendar and that I will be speaking at. If you are coming to any of these events, please don’t hesitate to come and say “hi”. Also, if you are working on a cool RIA running in the browser or on the desktop, I really want to know about it. So hope to see you at one of these events:

• April 12th – Adobe D-Day – Dubai, UAE
  http://www.ddayme.com
• April 17th – Flex Camp – Cairo, Egypt
• May 8th – FlashConference – Stuttgart, Germany
  http://flashconference.de/
• May 21st – FF2k8 – Cologne, Germany
  http://ffk08.flashforum.de/
• May 23rd – Multi-Mania – Kortrijk, Belgium
  http://www.multi-mania.be